Michael Zuliani
Experienced design manager
Looking for a senior design manager or design director position where I can help your design and product teams deliver exceptional user experiences through AI, web, and mobile.
- Systems approach to design leadership, AI, UX design, and designOps
- People leadership with empathy
- Product development through shared goals, collaboration, and trust
Will leverage years of experience across many dimensions of design: UX design, product design, design research, CX design, and designOps. Enjoy learning new product and technical domains while using design research to better understand new cohorts of users and customers.
Work experience
- Senior UX Design Manager - IBM Maximo Application Suite
2023 - 2025
Managing a UX design team for IBM's asset management SaaS across Canada, USA, India, and Brazil. - Senior Design Manager - IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
2021 - 2023
Managing the design team (UX, visual, & research) for IBM's systems engineering solution across Canada, USA and India. - Senior UX Design Researcher & Team Lead - IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
2019-2021
Design researcher and UX team lead for IBM's systems engineering solution.
Leading research and customer engagement activities to drive design and product insights.
Leading design project prioritization, scheduling and process in alignment with product management and development. - Senior UXR Design Researcher - IBM Maximo Application Suite
2017-2019
Leading design research activities for asset health, SMB offerings and developer experience for IBM's asset management offering. - Lead UX Designer - IBM Internet of Things (IoT)
2015-2017
Led design projects with focus on the “developer experience” for new and emerging IoT (Internet of Things) offerings. - UX Designer - IBM database technology
2000-2015
Led design projects across various IBM database offerings, including dB2, dashDB, pureData and Data Studio.
Publications
- A UX Lens on AI Model Accuracy and Precision. Medium. Mar 22, 2019 - Michael Zuliani and Paul McInerney
- Trust by design: Information requirements for appropriate trust in automation. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, CASCON '06. - Pierre Duez, Michael Zuliani and Greg Jamieson
- DB2 Advisor: An Optimizer Smart Enough to Recommend its own Indexes. Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering. 2000 - Gary Weiss, Michael Zuliani, Daniel Zilio, Guy Lohman, and Alan Skelley
Certifications
- Enterprise Design Thinking - Team Essentials for AI, Issued by IBM October 04, 2019
- Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, Issued by IBM July 12, 2017
- IBM Agile Explorer, Issued by IBM November 13, 2019